From here, it’s a cat’s jump to Masada — 17 minutes, nothing for the IDF, and even less for Hamas. Less still if they swear their oath here.
מצדה לא תיפול שנית – Metzada lo tipol shenit – “Masada shall not fall again.”
Masada is a neuralgic point for Israel, and it’s no coincidence that it is for the Defense Forces as well.
Footnote: Masada was the last bastion of Jewish resistance. Around seventy years after Christ, nearly a thousand Jews committed suicide here — and, my Catholic friends, that’s the greatest sin. The ultimate act of self-sacrifice.
Imagine everyone you love burning on a pyre — that’s what the people of Masada did. And Rome burned everyone alive.
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